Fun Idea of the Day: Baseball Game of Thrones

"And now batting for the Staten Island Direwolves, hand of the king Ned Stark...."

GRRM throws out the first pitch at an Albuquerque Isotopes game last year.

In an unusual promotion, the Staten Island Yankees, an A-level minor league affiliate of the New York Yankees, are holding "Meet George R.R. Martin Night" on Saturday, August 8, for a game against the Hudson Valley Renegades. Martin will attend and sign autographs. For the evening, the Yankees will become the Staten Island Direwolves, and both teams will wear Stark vs. Lannister-themed jerseys that will be auctioned off (with proceeds benefiting the Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary in New Mexico). The first 2,500 fans to arrive will get a Staten Island Direwolves baseball cap, courtesy of Random House. The Staten Island Advance wrote that that game festivities will also include a cosplayer costume contest, a Game of Thrones trivia contest and seating sections named after the houses of the family clans in Game of Thrones. The Advance said that Martin, who's a Mets fan, agreed to participate on the condition the team not have the Yankees name for the game. 

According to the Yankees, Martin, who grew up in nearby Bayonne, N.J., used the profile of Staten Island as inspiration for King's Landing, the capital of the Seven Kingdoms in the Song of Ice and Fire series, the basis for HBO's blockbuster series Game of Thrones

Of course, many Song of Ice and Fire fans hope the game of baseball doesn't go into extra innings and take away from Martin finishing the Game of Thrones any more than it would otherwise.

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